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Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans

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Name
  
Charles 2nd

Died
  
July 27, 1751

Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans
Children
  
George Beauclerk, 3rd Duke of St Albans

Parents
  
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans

Siblings
  
Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, Lord Sidney Beauclerk, Lord William Beauclerk

Grandparents
  
Charles II of England, Nell Gwyn, Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford

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Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, KG KB (6 April 1696 – 27 July 1751) was the son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans. His paternal grandparents were Charles II of England and Nell Gwynne. He was styled Earl of Burford until 1726.

On 13 December 1722, he married Lucy Werden (the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir John Werden, 2nd Baronet) and they had two children:

  • George Beauclerk, 3rd Duke of St Albans (1730–1786)
  • Lady Diana Beauclerk (c. 1746–1766), married the Rev. and Hon. Shute Barrington (a son of the 1st Viscount Barrington).
  • By his mistress Renee Lennox (1709–1774), illegitimate daughter of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and his mistress Jacqueline de Mezieres:

  • Diane Beauclerk-Lennox (1727–?) who became the mistress of Baron Alessandro Mompalalao Cuzkeri.
  • And by his mistress Marie-Francoise de la Rochefoucauld, daughter of Casimir-Jean Charles, lord of Fontpastour and Chey:

  • Suzanne Beauclerk, married Jean IX Nolasque, marquess of Noves and count of Mimet.
  • Beauclerk died in 1751, aged 55 in London and was interred in Westminster Abbey.

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